To coat, treat, or convert something into bakelite, or to harden using a bakelite-like process.
From bakelite + -ize (suffix meaning 'to make or become'). A neologism from the early 20th century when bakelite manufacturing was growing.
Bakelize shows how successful product names become verbs—just like 'xerox' became a verb for photocopying, bakelite was so revolutionary that people created a word meaning 'to bakelit-ify.'
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